Paavai Vilakku

Paavai Vilakku Tamil is a Tamil 1960 film directed by K. Somu. The film features Sivaji Ganesan, Sowcar Janaki, Pandari Bai, M. N. Rajam and Kumari Kamala in lead roles. The film, had musical score by K. V. Mahadevan and was released onOctober 1960. As the story was serialised in a weekly magazine, it had many twists and turns, and the movie is also not easy to narrate in detail. Despite the popularity of the novel , brilliant writing for the screen by A.P. Nagarajan and fine performances Sivaji came up with an excellent portrayal, well supported by Sowcar Janaki, Rajam, and Kumari Kamala., the film did not do well at the box office.

Now the film cuts to the beginning of the story in which he plays the hero. The heroine is Sowcar Janaki, the woman he marries, and they have a child Kalyani. Kumari Kamala is a dancer to whom the hero is attracted, but for many reasons they do not marry because he already has a wife. Pandari Bai, a young widow, is also drawn to him, but she begins to treat him as her brother. M.N. Rajam is another young woman who stays with the married couple and brings up the child as her own. She too falls in love with the hero, but cannot marry him. An accident on the steps of the heros house ends in the death of the child. Rajam for obvious reasons is not informed of the childs death. Later she too meets with a similar accident and when she comes to know the shocking secret about the child, she dies in the arms of her friend Janaki and the hero surrounded by all the relations.The music composed by K. V. Mahadevan. Lyrics by Mahakavi Bharathiyar amp A. Maruthakasi. Playback singers are C. S. Jayaraman, Soolamangalam Rajalakshmi P. Suseelaamp L. R. Eswari. ........

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